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Show Decorated for Her Heroic Acts I ( 7Wts- SI Mrs. Samuel Burleigh Milton, prominent Washington woman, has been presented with a coast guard life saving medal for the rescue of two persons from Chesapeake bay more than a year ago. In presenting the medal, Admiral Billard, commandant of the United States coast guard, declared that it was an unusual and conspicuous award and that it was bestowed only In cases of rare bravery. Mrs. Milton saved a boy from drowning In August, 1923, and also Miss Rose Cohen, a war worker from St. Louis. |